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krautrock

noun

krautrock is spelled K-R-A-U-T-R-O-C-K: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, krautrock means “A genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in krautrock?

Letters9: K-R-A-U-T-R-O-C-K
In writingabout once in every 12 million words; the 102,771st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is krautrock?

Krautrock appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What does krautrock mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s.

noun

as Krautrock
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of krautrock.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Krautrock in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense a genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s:

LanguageWords
Frenchkrautrock
GermanKrautrock
Portuguesekrautrock

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does krautrock come from?

From Kraut (“German”) + rock (“rock music”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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